Sociology Now, Census Update

WHAT DOES AMERICA THINK? 415 CRITICAL THINKING|DISCUSSION QUESTIONS Why do you think almost 10 percent of the population still ...

13 ■Theories of the Economy ■Economic Development The Agricultural Economy The Industrial Economy Consumption and the Modern Eco ...

AMERICANS SPEND AN AVERAGE OF 1,804 HOURSper year working. That’s 200 hours more than in France or Sweden, over 300 more than in ...

Theories of the Economy We all need material resources. On the most basic level, physical survival requires the big three: food, ...

Economic Development The first human societies, tens of thousands of years ago, were nomadic hunter- gatherer groups of 20 to 40 ...

3.Specialization. In the influential Principles of Scientific Man- agement(1911), Frederick Taylor proposed that production woul ...

With industrialization came the decline of agriculture as a livelihood. In 1700, before the Industrial Revolution, 60 percent of ...

This trend began in the 1960s, as automated machinery substantially reduced and sometimes eliminated the need for human labor in ...

between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. They are on the road constantly, en route between home, office, meetings, and the airport. Service wor ...

call centers in developing nations like India and China. Then, production line jobs began to move overseas where labor was cheap ...

Economic Systems All societies must deal with three fundamental economic questions: (1) production, (2) distribution, and (3) co ...

In the United States, most people believe that the political systemof democracy would be impossible without the economic systemo ...

(laissez-faire). Companies like Wal-Mart resist the unioniza- tion of their workers and undermine minimum wage regula- tions. Ot ...

rich, funds a wide range of social welfare programs for everyone, including universal health and child care. Scholars differ on ...

Strangely, communist ideas did not take hold in industrialized, capitalist countries where the gap between owners and workers wa ...

The Impact of Industrialization: Displacement and Consolidation The new nation was formed at the start of the Industrial Revolut ...

■Regulation of the stock market by the government (the Security and Exchange Commission, or SEC) ■Insurance of bank deposits by ...

the early days of capitalism, entrepreneurs followed their lead by sharing their investments, customers, production, and profits ...

officially assigned to an office in one location may live in a dozen cities, or even a dozen countries, working together through ...

are based in Germany. But this is also happening more and more in the United States. Already, more than one-third of General Mot ...